I looked at a calendar and realized

[conuly]

this is a weirdo year in which (Western) Easter is early and Passover (and, perforce, Orthodox Easter) is late.

Actually I'm not entirely sure which Orthodox churches have determined that Easter must fall after Passover. Is it all of them? Or only some of them? Well, whichever ones they are, they're having their Easter in May!

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Comments

[adrian_turtle]

I think the Jewish calendar switched from observation-based to calculation-based later than 100 CE but before Council of Nicea? idk, I have enough brain to regurgitate stuff I read during my teenage hyperfixation on calendar mechanics but not enough to look anything up myself. anyway if I'm remembering correctly then who even knows what Orthodox churches say is how Jewish people during Christ's life calculate Passover

The calculation-based Jewish calendar is from about the same time as the Council of Nicea. It was developed by the SECOND Rabbi Hillel (in the Sanhedrin 320-385 CE, thus not the guy who disagreed with Shammai so much 300 years earlier. Though many people mix them up and forget to say "Hillel the Elder" or "Hillel II.") It wasn't a coincidence that they developed the calculation-based calendar around the time of the Council of Nicea...Constantine was less than thrilled with Jewish messengers running back and forth to say it was time to do something so non-Christian as celebrate Rosh Hashanah.

[alexseanchai]

oh that makes sense